Super Sunday 10K

On Sunday, February 1, my friend Eric and I ran our second 10K race—the Super Sunday 10K. The first 10K race we ran was the James Joyce Ramble in April 2007, where eager volunteers recited Joyce’s prose and poetry along the race course.

During the Super Sunday race, the volunteers on the course barely opened their mouths, and decidedly none of them recited any poetry. You cannot blame them—it was bitter cold. Yes, Sunday was a nice sunny and relatively warm day in Boston, but the key here is “relative”, and the nice part of the day really started in the afternoon. The race kicked off at 10:15am, not at 10am as scheduled, due to an unusually large number of people still lined up to use the port-a-potties. I am sure the cold had something to do with that.

The double loop course mostly ran along the Northern Avenue in South Boston, opening up views of the Boston sky line. However pretty, the course failed to become one of my favorites due to several areas where it narrowed creating a funnel affect for the runners. Still the clam chowder provided by Legal Sea Foods, one of the race sponsors, made up for all the shortcomings on the course, and we went home very content.

Though Super Sunday did not bring us any PRs (see race results), Eric and I still had a good time. In fact we had so much fun, we are thinking of running the James Joyce Ramble again this year.